JabRef 2.5b

JabRef 2.5b is an effective program created for managing bibliographical databases.

JabRef is designed specifically for BibTeX bases, but can import and export many other bibliographic formats. JabRef runs on all platforms.

Major Features:

1. Advanced BibTeX editor: Detailed editing of BibTeX entries.
2. Search functions: Search a pattern in the whole bibliography.
3. Classification of entries: You can group entries explicitly, by keywords or any other fields.
4. Import of various formats: BibTeXML, CSA, Refer/Endnote, ISI Web of Science, SilverPlatter, Medline/Pubmed (xml), Scifinder, OVID, INSPEC, Biblioscape, Sixpack, JStor and RIS.
5. Built-in and custom export formats: HTML, Docbook, BibTeXML, MODS, RTF, Refer/Endnote and OpenOffice.org.
6. Customization of BibTeX fields: You can add your own fields to any BibTeX entry type.
7. Customization of the JabRef interface: Fonts, displayed fields, etc
8. Integrates to your environment: Launch external applications: PDF/PS viewers, web browser, insert citations into LyX, Kile, LatexEDitor, Emacs, Vim and WinEdt
9. Automatic Key generation
10. Search Medline, Citeseer, IEEEXplore and arXiv
11. Support for XMP Metadata in PDFs: Improve the workflow of sharing PDFs and bibliography information
12. Plugin functionality

Enhancements:

• Added Simplified Chinese translation.
• Added simple plugin manager.
• Added ~/.jabref/plugins as user-specific plugin directory.
• Added r marker to WrapFileLinks formatter that outputs file links without expanding relative links.
• Added [authorAlpha] key marker that formats authors according to the "alpha" BibTeX style. Patch submitted by Oliver Kopp.
• Table sort order set by clicking and Ctrl-clicking table columns is now immediately set as default sort order in preferences.
• Changed LyX pipe setting so it works whether ".in" is included or omitted.
• Modified ISI importer so the words "of", "and" and "the" will not be capitalized in the title, journal or publisher fields.
• When adding new local file link, browse dialog now appears immediately when opening file link editor, saving one mouse click.
• Added "Remove all broken links" option in the resolver dialog for broken links when synchronizing file links.
• Added rename option to Set/clear field dialog, to move contents from one field to another.
• Added Back and Forward actions, for switching between recently edited BibTeX entries.
• Added option under "Entry table" to designate fields as numeric for sorting purposes.
• Added possibility for custom export filters to define their own name formatters. This is done by adding a file named ".formatters". This file defines one formatter on each line, with each line containing the name of the formatter and the formatter definition, separated by a colon (:).
• Added menu items for increasing/decreasing table font size, with shortcut keys Ctrl-plus and Ctrl-minus.
• Added options to automatically mark entries imported into an existing database, and to unmark previously marked entries when importing.
• Added ":(x)" modifier to key generator, specifying that the arbitrary string x should be used as a fallback value if the value returned by the field marker is empty.
• Added ":upper" modifier to key generator, to force uppercase for a field marker.
• Added buttons in External programs tab in Preferences for modifying settings for "Push to"-features, and removed obsolete fields.
• Added support for DOI field in Endnote importer.
• Added support for language and publication status fields in Medline import (publication status stored in "medline-pst" field).
• Enabled cookie handling for downloading full-text articles.
• Improved handling of invalid BibTeX keys containing white space. Parser will now try to piece together the key and avoid disturbing the continued parsing. Patch submitted by Stephan Lau.
• Cosmetic change to the entry type label to the left in the entry editor.
• Changed name handling so a single-entry name without a capital initial letter, such as "unknown", will be treated as a solitary last name rather than a von particle.
• Changed table selection coloring so entries that are grayed out or marked can be distinguished from normal entries when selected.
• Changed handling of "affiliation" in Medline import - now makes sure to escape # characters before storing.
• Modified ACM portal fetcher due to web site changes.
• Improvements to IEEEXplore fetcher - better handling of month and page fields.
• Changed behaviour of source panel when an entry contains imbalanced # characters - the panel can now show the entry in its invalid form, allowing the user to fix the problem.
• Improved handling of PDF files without XMP metadata - other metadata will now be retained. Patch submitted by Felix Langner.
• Fixed bug in parsing file field - double spaces in file names would be reduced to single spaces, breaking the file link. Fix submitted by Uwe Kuehn.
• Fixed NullPointerException when downloading external file and file directory is undefined.
• Fixed bug in HTMLConverter.
• Fixed NullPointerException in key generator for incomplete names.
• Fixed bug in removing custom export filters.
• Fixed bug 2225371: restart is no longer required after adding a new custom export filter.
• Fixed bug in "Move/rename file" feature in file field editor with regard to undefined file directory.
• Fixed bug in Ris importer.
• Fixed NullPointerException in Endnote importer.